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寓意小説
[ぐういしょうせつ]
guuishousetsu
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- allegory; allegorical tale
推理小説
[すいりしょうせつ]
suirishousetsu
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit
筋立て
[すじだて]
sujidate
expression
English Meanings:
expression
- plot (of a story)
民間伝承
[みんかんでんしょう]
minkandenshou
noun, no adjective
English Meanings:
noun, no adjective
- folklore
たとえ話
[たとえばなし]
tatoebanashi
noun
Alternate Written Forms:
例え話
[たとえばなし]
tatoebanashi
譬え話
[たとえばなし]
tatoebanashi
譬話
[たとえばなし]
tatoebanashi
English Meanings:
noun
- allegory; fable; parable
先祖伝承
[せんぞでんしょう]
senzodenshou
noun, no adjective
English Meanings:
noun, no adjective
- what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation; legend; folk tale
英雄譚
[えいゆうたん]
eiyuutan
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- epic; heroic tale
奇譚
[きたん]
kitan
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- mysterious story
English Meanings:
noun
- legend; folklore; tradition
- legend (e.g. on a map); usage guide
- (living) legend; icon
伝う
[つたう]
tsutau
godan verb, intransitive verb
English Meanings:
godan verb, intransitive verb
- to go along; to walk along; to follow
English Meanings:
noun
- muscle
English Meanings:
noun
- thriller (movie, story)
English Meanings:
noun
- saga
探偵小説
[たんていしょうせつ]
tanteishousetsu
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story
捕物帳
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
noun
Alternate Written Forms:
捕物帖
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
捕り物帳
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers)
- detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs
ディテクティブストーリー
ditekutibusutoorii
noun
Alternate Written Forms:
ディテクティブ・ストーリー
ditekutibu sutoorii
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story
プロット
purotto
noun, suru verb
English Meanings:
noun
- plot (of a story)
noun, suru verb
- plotting (a graph)
筋
[すじ]
suji
noun, noun, used as a suffix, no adjective, suffix, counter
Alternate Written Forms:
English Meanings:
noun
- muscle; tendon; sinew
- vein; artery
- fiber; fibre; string
- line; stripe; streak
- reason; logic
- plot; storyline
- lineage; descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude; talent
- source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
- social position; status
noun, used as a suffix, noun, no adjective
- on (a river, road, etc.); along
suffix, counter
- counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
English Meanings:
noun
- muscle
レビュー
rebyuu
noun, suru verb
Alternate Written Forms:
English Meanings:
noun, suru verb
- review